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March 9 <g Lac diversion scheme, he was pro-- f viding & waterway for floating | pulpwood to the lake -- pulpwood that was now being carried by the railways. He precipitated a brief clash with the Premier when he quoted Mr. 1 !Hephurn as saying, "I will not * | spend any more money on that sink h hole .f the North." (Wreinmneoicinefiroehcmcitings | "I have never made any such s | | ::::p:'npm as that," the Premier re-- Aufhonfy to In vesfigafe- e(. * Smmmmmmmmmmmmmmmemememmem m Hits Eduational Costs. Homewood Sa:aforlum *Lp* Leslie Frost (Cons., Victoria) ls Sou t Fort \:'Vullnam M.L.A. Says pleaded for radical reform in the 9 | i whole "unjust and inadequate" set-- Muc SPOH* on Pro|ecfs up of municipal assessment and tax-- RIGHT IS CHALLENGED | Not in Prospecfus |ation. The first real cause for com-- | (Cl i gieeaeierrere n ererrensetas plaint, said he, was to be found in M | educational costs. Education, he Legislation that would confirm BlG LOSSES SA'D FACED said, was really a Provincial mat-- the: authority of Fred H. Barlow t ter, and, inasmuch as it was con-- KC. Master In Ch 4 trolled and regulated by the Prov-- { s asier . n ambers of the Investigation into the administra-- ince, there was no reason why its |Supreme Court of Ontario, to in-- ' tion of the Lake Sulphite Company's costs should bear in such uneven 'vestlgate the administration and af-- funds was demanded yesterday in proportions on the municipalities. | fairs of the Homewood Sanitarium io * i uies In 1936--1937, said he, the total ex-- the Legislature by Frank Spence n in Guelph, was presented to the TW penditures of the Department Ontario -- Legi f 5 (Cons.. Fort William), when he ; 4 ntario Legislature yesterday by 3 of Education, including grants, H Harold J. Kirb s claimed that people of the Lakehead amounted to about $10,000,000. For on,. Haro * rby, Minister of district have lost all of $600,000 1936 the cost of education to mu-- Health. . through the collapse In the com-- nicipatities Tor public, se | --The bill provides .for the appoint-- ugh , separate and ment of an investigatory is-- pany's financial structure. secondary schools was in e { o estigatory commis | ~Mr. Spence charged that between & 3 xcess 0o sioner under the Private Sanitaria | $500,000 and $700,000 was spent on $36,000,000,. _ Secondary education. _ Act. 'The legislation, it was point-- | projects which were not outlined in which should not, he submitted, be ed out, would remove all question | | the company's prospectus. People a charge against real estate alone, of Mr. Barlow's jurisdiction and --rat the Head of the Lakes wanted to cost $10,000,000. 4 authority. This was challenged, it know if other sums like these were The unfairness and antiquated was stated, after his early appoint-- ! spent, he said, as he placed upon the nature of secondary educat!on tax-- ment as an inspector under the Government -- direct -- responsibility a'tnon can be demonstrated in prac-- Mental Hospitals Act, to investigat | for an inquiry. tically any rural municipality," said the Guelph institution. | "It is a matter that transcends Mr, Frost. *"For instance, the Town-- Under amendments to the Publi party politics," he said, "and an ex-- ship of Sommerville, which sends Health Act proposed by Mr. Kirb: planation is in order." | its pupils to Fenelon Falls or Lind-- Medical Officers of Health ar»e ' Says Heavy Losses Faced. | say, contributes in its tax bill to given power to restrict the move-- District contractors, he charc imntinuation schools in Ennismore, ments of persons suspected of bein were paid with Ph%uos "h';"'"d- | Peterborough City, Port Perry, disease--carriers and to compel thei bank would honor. Many wo.uld 22 TRPM.MM" and.Canninglon. on in sul?;nlt Cessam, "16 dugrantin to the wall unless some}hing were are not even in tThe county, and ?}?:ml hecessafy» to quarantlt done quickly. . Commercial houses | which their children would never The bill would also empower th were faced with heavy losses on attend. Provincial Department of Health t« } unpaid goods. Port Arthur, he em-- | Other charges, which were an pay compensation to disease "car-- phas_ized. spent th.ousandw of dollars [ obviously unjust burden, declared riers" or persons suspecied' of be-- feeding and housing workmen who Mr. Frost, were unemplovment re-- ing "carriers" if they are deprived n"erer:eleasod from their jobs when lief, hospitalization, health services of employment as the result of quar-- cl:sed edT':lorl'( development . was and social services, including chil-- antine. The amounts of the com-- . » e city, in addition, paid | dren's aid, and the heavy cost of pensations are to be determined b: the rail fares of many men to their administration of justice. "The regulations under the act. homes. | Province and Dominion," he stress-- Another amendment to the as: "But that is not all," said the ed, "could well take over the police provides that a Medical Officer of speaker. "Investors who put from lforces as a matter of efficiency and 'Ilealth must retire at the age of four to five millions in it should be | economy. Some local police are no 70 unless the continuation of his protected by the Securities Commis-- 'doubt needed for ordinary patrol services are requested by the Mu-- sion. They want now to know _ |and enforcement of local by--laws. nicipal Council. In such event, the where and how the money was | but the real burden of maintaining maximum age is set at 75. spent. I say they have the right, | law and order should be with the One clause in the bill would au-- as the people of the Province gen-- 'Provincial and Dominion author-- thorize the Department of Heaith erally ha\'_f' the right, to know what ities." 1(0 make regulations bearing upon was done. JY lthe stuffing of mattresses, furni-- The Fort William member said | ture and dolls. It is pointed out that the Lake Sulphite develop-- | that complaints have been made . ment was welcomed by the Lake-- that old materials have been used head--that the people up there were in the manufacture of new articles in favor of erecting all the pulp and that disease might be communi-- mills that the public would stand. cated through unsanitary goods. | He referred caustically to the twelve m _--_.._._._ _ ._n_ _z mills that were said, prior to the election, to be in the course of de-- velopment. "Imagine how disappointed--how _ , | blasted our hopes--when this first mill at Red Rock went into receiver-- ship," he said. Praises Heenan Policy. Mr. Spence praised the policy ! adopted by Hon. Peter Heenan, Minister of Lands and Forests, in 1935, of allocating many timber limits to local business men. But under a later policy, in which large limits were placed in the hands of outside operators, some from foreign f lands, Mr. Spence saw a direct loss to the local operators, and in a relative degree to the entire dis-- trict. He criticized also the Govern-- ment's Long Lac diversion plan, and demanded of the Ministry the reason why all the money in the / development was being spent through the Ontario Hydro--Electric Power Commission. He charged Premier Hepburn with inconsis-- tency in his diversion policy and * opposition to the St. Lawrence Waterways. He opposed the latter, Mr. Spence said, because it would hurt the railways. But in the Long j